Different 'add product' templates for diff prods?

[iamaninja]

It was all going so well too...

 

I had a relatively simple set up for a mobile phone store for a client, with one general product_info page for all products.

 

However, now he wants to have tariff products as well as phone model products: as in having one type of products displaying all the phone model info, and another completely seperate type of product displaying tariff information. i can't think of another way around this than having one template on the admin side in order to add the phone model products with the necessary features, pictures, etc, and another seperate template for the tariff with all the many call charges - off peak, weekend, X-network, etc. Is this possible at all, to have more than one template on the admin side using the same DB? I had thought about adding the tariffs as product options, but this is already taken for another function.

 

Sorry if this is immensely confusing or has an exceptionally easy answer - my brain has frazzled with incomprehension over the last 24 hours or so....

 

Plus that's without mentioning combining both products to make one eventual single order, but i'd like to take it one step at a time!!

 

Thanks for anyone with any suggestions whatsoever...

[♥bruyndoncx]

checkout the following contributions:

1) static attributes for your different tariffs

2) attribute sets, to distinguish data to maintain for tarif vs phone model

3) bundled products to put them in 1 pack

[iamaninja]

Ah, cheers! Will have a good look at these - i'm beginning to get my head around it, i'm sure it'll come soon! Thanks!